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Topic: Dusty Trail Toys new "Wild West" Line (Read 7788 times)

Paul, you rock dude. Thanks! I'm gonna show those off at FFURG for custom fodder.

From my estimation (I borrowed them and lightened them up to see articulation and break points), I can see some really 21st Cent. Toys-ish articulation there. Possibly as heavily done as the Paratroopers were.

I think the hats may come off... it's possible.

I may shoot an email over to Dusty Trails too. Absolutely infriggin'credible here. Very realistic figures. I'd be all over these for casting and for just collecting a set... Customizing some too!

Great stuff!

Some of the stuff the Playmobil line has may be able to be used there too... They have an older style Colt single-action...

This could be huge. I can't see a Cannon and Gatling without troops too. I hope we see Indians, Cavalry, and more noteable characters from history. The Doc Holiday's very close in likeness to Val Kilmer's character from Tombstone.

I'm sure as **** glad that Earp doesn't look like the Costner version... not close to Tombstone's Kurt Russel really either. Closer to that than Costner though.

Which reminds me... I'd take some Dances with Wolves characters... OH! What about figures based on characters likenesses from Deadwood on HBO? I could only imagine if they had voice chips that had lines from that show. Good lord.

After looking closer, their articulation is IDENTICAL to the U.S. Paras... Right down to the pivoting thigh joint. The elbow hinge is even identical in design to 21st's style.

Great stuff.

BTW Paul, I think I see pretty clear "gaps" at the hats for removable headgear too man! REALLY nice sculpts. Not the slightest bit cartoony or poor quality there. The whole thing looks like authentic (100%, right down to the tin cup which is sweet) sculpts, tons of articulation...

If the horses suck I'll just be replacing them with better ones in the same scale *cough*PTE*cough*.

I think there are pictures of the Crow Scout and 30's Gangster on either Action-Figure.com or some other. They are for Dusty Trails 7in line. I guess we could assume that since they have done a Johnny Ringo-esque 7in and a Crow Scout is coming that perhaps they will show up in the Wild West line fairly soon enough...but that is a big perhaps. I mean the research is already there...

The 7inch line has LIMITED articualtion, and by limited I mean maybe 1 shoulder or 1 wrist and the neck.

I bought the Gambler and the US Marshall (and the Pirate). But Jesse is right, they are more like statues with movable parts. And I am not much of a Statue person. None of my stuff is displayed so statues/busts are kinda wasted on me.

It is my hope that this line will have "Legs"...I'd hate for it to suffer the fate of Sixgun Legends from Sideshow...I think the fact that these from Dusty Trail are not in the 1:6 scale market (which oddly seems more crowded than 1:18) will help out. I don't know how they are marketing them, but surely a retailer/e-tailer will think to advertise them in True West, Wild West, Guns of the Old West, Shoot Magazine, Cowboys and Indians and other magazines as well as with Organizations like Single Action Shooters Society(which has a monthly magazine), Cowboy Hall of Fame, Tombstone Museum.

Ok you have to cut me some slack, it has been a slow week at the office so I've had some free time to obsess over these things. Just be glad I don't have any computer skills or you'd all be getting a link to my website devoted to figures that aren't even for sale yet and are squarely in the "prototype" stage.

Here is something I thought about...if they did some background stuff imagine how well that would fit in with dioramas/displays from other lines.

Here's the link to their site. Not sure if you military buffs are aware of it, but click on the Trail Troopers link on the bottom right for pics of the yet to be released paratroopers.

I'd about pee in my pants if DT's new toyline hinted at in the article are 3-3/4" figures of the new Battlestar Galactica series. (Yeah, I'm not happy about the "re-imagining", and yeah, another company is making 7" figures of the older BSG crew, but toys are another matter, and except for the Cylon, the prototypes of the humans by Joyride Studios suck... and they ain't 3-3/4".)

As for the Wild West figures, there's nothing for me to do but shut up and control my shaking while I wait for these to hit stores.